Every Wednesday, a substantial group of Rockwood High School alumni share memories and good times over a lunch at Junior’s Restaurant.
You never know who might attend.
Recently the group included Ray Leffew, who traveled 140 miles from Hendersonville to attend.
“When I get hungry and want something to eat, I come,” he quipped.
Another reason he attends is to visit with his aunt, Mary Leffew Hood, with whom he graduated in 1962.
Charles Holt, a former New York Yankees minor-league athlete, also recently attended a luncheon.

Tim Crass, Sequoyah Shores subdivision: “It’s been a long time coming. He lived 12 years that he shouldn’t have lived. They should have killed him a year before he attacked the towers in New York. If they had done that we would still have those towers. That’s why I’m saying 12 years.”

Steven Robinette, local mixed martial arts instructor: “I want to see the body.”

Residents in the Eagle Furnace area may someday get the opportunity to have cable television and natural gas.

Ron Berry, who sat as the interim general manager of Rockwood Water, Sewer and Gas and is helping transition new manager Kimberly Ramsey, has recommended looking at extending gas service to the customers in this area and approaching Comcast about sharing the cost of the ditch to extend cable to that area as well.

Part of Gov. Bill Haslam’s strategy for bringing jobs to Tennessee is getting rural communities to work together to spur economic development.
“The only way they’re going to do that is if they don’t get in a bind like Roane County, and one county pays for it and another county reaps all the benefits,” said Roane County Executive Ron Woody.
Roane, Cumberland and Morgan counties could be a test case of how well multi-county alliances work.